PUBLISHED EMERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDRY.
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Vol. Ill No. 209
KINSTON, N. 0., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 6, 1900.
Price Two Cants.
GENERAL; HEWS.
Matters of Interest Condensed Into
Brief Paragraphs.
' A four-story building waa burned in
BoHton Wednesday, causing a loss o!
$100,000.
It is proposed to otimit Oklahoma to
the union giving it the name of the state
of Jefferson.
The United States army now numbers
103.250 officers and privates, of whom
.34,574 are volunteers. About 72,000
are in the Philippines.
A work train backed into a freight
train near Suisun, Col., Tuesday, and in
the wreck which followed eight men were'
killed and 20 injured.
' The mineral products of this country
last year'aggregated in value $967,000,
000, an increase of some $ 200,000,000
over the previous year.
A dispatch from Rome says the river
Tiber is in flood and the bank has given
way between the bridges Cesto and Gari
baldi, causing damage to the amount of
17,500,000.
Gen.. Kitchener reports from South
Africa that the mounted troops of Gen.
Knox were engaged all day long Sunday
with part of Gen. De Wet's forces north
of Bethulie. The Boers were, headed off
and retired in a northeasterly direction.
At Wheeler's store, a small settlement
in Lowndes county, Ala., George Wheeler
shot and instantly killed A. Waldrop and
Calvin Harris, both white men. Wal
drop had been farming on shares for
Wheeler and bad a dispute on money
matters.
The Oliver Schofleld, a three-masted
schooner, bound from Norfolk, Va., to
New -York, was repdrted Tuesday to be
pounding to pieces on the coast near
Lavalette City, N. J. , Her crew, consist-
ing of captain and six men, were rescued
by members oi lite saving station no. id
; The worst etorm in two years raged
along the New England and Nova Scotia
coast Tuesday night. Many vessels were
wrecked but the crews ot mosp ei them
-were saved. The crew of the flfihing
schooner "Mary crown" was wrecked
near Portsmouth, N. EL and itie thought
- her crew of bix perched. . , ,
J. G.Btowe, U. 6. eonguiat Cape Town,
says: "I give the war in South Africa
four months to come to an end. In my
. opinion it is bound to be snuffed out dor-
ing that period. I do not believe Lord,
Kitchener will do much more than any
other eeneral. The present plan of the
. ' British campaign is bound to bring about
- the result. Moreover, tnere are lo,uuu
Boer prisoners in Ceylon, St. Helena and
- at uape Town, au oi wnom are anxious
to have an end OI hostilities."
Although Senator Morgan is very con
' fldent that the dream of his life time, the
authorization of the construction oi the
Nfcarauga canal, will be realized at the
E resent session of congress,' the situation
i so Confused there is a possibility of his
. 'i- beinar disappointed. There are many ob
.. fltacles in the path of the final passage of
- the canal Ml in the senate, President
. ' McKinleV has told - manv senators who
have called upon him that he will not
: sign a canal bill which provides foe the
- construction ot Jortinoations lor its de-
" fense.. He has also informed them that
the Hay-Pauncefote treaty must be rati
v fled before any canal legislation is com
pleted.
. " Aboftf the SIbc of It. . . :
Little Willie Say. pa. what's the
street cleaning department? , : -
Pa It's the place, where tbey explain
' V to the dissatisfaction or taxpayers wny
tha streets are not cleaned. Chfcago
Dally News. V, .
''lt: t- CndPtti!
f- "A genius." writes a small boy, 'is
born first an raised afterward., but the
; : worP don't know' - he's a, genlustlll
aoniebody sprains. their leg by rtnm
iblln ove( his graye.'VAtlanta Const!
tutlou..,; . J ... k ",: r . , v
v. : C' H of VenliioB. Eltber. r-v
? Flo He told intl looked good enough
to eat. '' ','."" - t v
May-Yes; I heard blm cairyoo a
; dear. Philadelphia Bulletin. '
Stop Talking
X Ustcov vnlle; we tell , yon
something about your huti Di&
yoo kap that j if .you "wonll
only esc a little cf AyerY Hiif
ycf tiir vooli grotr very inocn,
g ,':ct ? It : restores color, to
3 grey &sir, toc td Etorjs.,Illing
o tie hair. Aai it is a most
1 excellent dressing. ' ;
If yon do ot otaH tht brGt nn d(.ir
f rin nit ci thft inir, write thn Ikx ut
nv.i:t it. La witl te I yon Jnt the rr't
t'Mirtodo. Adiirets, Ur. J. C. Alia, Lontil,
KEEPING SECRETS.
Am Initrnedrt Eay on How Hot to
Do It.
A secret like an oyster, cannot be
kept too close, for the moment it is
opened it ceases to exist
A French philosopher Bays: "A man
is more faithful to the secrets ot anoth
er than to his own; a woman, on tlw
contrary, preserves her own secret bet
ter than that of another."
The explanation given for woman's
proneness to let the cat out of the bag
is that she is afraid she might die, and
then there would be no one left to keep
It.
None are so fond of secrets as those
who don't mean to keep them. Such
jpersons covet secrets as a spendthrift
covets money for the purpose of cir
culation.
"My dear Murphy," said an Irishman
to his friend, "why did you betray the
secret I told you?"
"Is It bethrayiu you call it? Sure,
whin I found I wasn't able to keep it
myself didn't 1 do well to tell it to
somebody who could V"
Secrets are poor property. If you
circulate them, you lose them, and if
you keep them you lose the interest on
the Investment.
"Whatre you sealing up In that en
velope so carefully, Jones?"
"Important Instructions that I forgot
to give my wife before I came to town
this morning. I'm going to send it up
home."
- "Will your wife open it at once?'
"Rather. I've made sure of that"
"How?" '
"I have addressed it to myself and
put a big 'Private on the corner of
the envelope." Tit-Bits.
Before HI Row York Visit.
Farmer Hyricks practices pole vault
Ing to help him dodge automobiles in
Gotham. New York Herald.
Getting-Ahead. - .
"You seem to be tickled over some
thing." said the head bookkeeper.
"I am." said the xlerk that had, been
on jin errand. ''I've Just beat tha firm
out of .8 cents in a legitimate , way
too."
"Tell us." ' . ..
"Weil, the trip I made required two
street car tickets; price. 8 cents. To
get those tickets I bad to get an order
from the subhead of our department
which was indorsed by the bead of the
department and again, by the general
manager and finally by the boss him
self, and by that time 1 badi .used up
16 cents' worth of time,' based on the
rate of my salary." Indianapolis Press.
'"Loyalty," - remarked Senator . Sor
ghum, "is one of my great characteris
tics." .;, rr-t ' ;;.-:f '
"But you have been known to change
your mind once or, twice."; , "
That is true, but my1 loyalty is tre
mendous while It lasts. .When I attach
myself to & man's political Interests..!
Stick to him like a brother until he gets
defeated." Washington Star.
. - What a Plt !
r They were out driving, and the young
man was holding -the .lines with one
band. - ' .
r '"Sweetheart" he whispered as the
moon went behind a cloud.., "I wish 1
had arms like llkeij-.
, "Like Fitzslmmons?' she asked. '
v No," ' he exclaimed; "like an octo-
pnsr' Chicago Tribune. ; . , r ,
.',Somotlnar In It. -
! DoDy Dimples Do you ever bear a
curious1 buzzing ound in your ears,
Mr. Evergreen?. s . .
X Mr. Evergreen No. but sometimes 1
hare thought I beard something rattle
inside. . ' - ' - - ' ;
" Dolly Dimples Than faearen! Per
haps there's something In it after alL
Ohio State Journal. . .
Cast Please 'Ehj.
Wltherby Now. my dear., t shall be
perfectly candid with yotf. I am going
down to the clnb tonight to play poker
and" hare a high old time. ; " ; '
Mrs. Wltherby That's Just like a
man: . iou might at least ware led me
to surpose yoo weTe Innocent Brook
lyn Life. , .
IMPROVE KINSTON.
"Citizen" Proposes Water Works
And Sewerage, ' and That Im
provements be in Hands of a
Board of Publio Works.
Communication.
For a few months past several of the
tax payers of the town have been quietly
discussing the matter of town improve
ment, especially as to what ought to be
done and how to do it.- There is a prac
tical unanimity that we ought to go for
ward and a conservative desire to do
nothing unwisely. We want and need
sewerage and water works for the entire
town, and paving for Queen street from
railroad to railroad.
Under existing conditions, all these
matters, provided the town should vote
the money, would be in the hands of the
commissioners. It rarely happens that
all or eveti a majority of the board is
composed of incapable men at the same
time--we never have aboard that does
not contain one or more who are men
tally weak, men who have obtained the
nomination through personal solicita
tions of votes and whose chief object in
seeking the position is fhe small salary
attached.' ,i,
It would be entirely too expensive to
place the salary of aldermen at such a
figure as would be an inducement to
first-grade men to seek the place. Every
man of capacity who accepts the nomi
nation with the f 50 salary mast do so
largely from patriotic motives. Why
not make it entirely a matter of pride by
abolishing the salary altogether. This
will eliminate the pin-hook politician
who is after the $50 and whatever else
he can trade for. Our best talent will
serve as faithfully without the $50 as
with it.
The office of alderman should be legis
lative and supervisory, nothing more.
Their term of office is so uncertain, on
account of yearly elections, that people
do not care, be the board ever so compe
tent and honest, to trust the handling of
a great sum of money or the construc
tion of a big system of improvement . to
their hands.4 They account to nobody
save themselves. They do not even have
the proceedings them meetmirs bub
fished in the papers so that our people
can find out. what their servants are
doing. ' " . '
This little bit of fault flndinsr ia not
directed to our present board. They are
simply following the footsteps of their
predecessors. In other respects tbey are
conducting the affairs of the town in a
more business like and systematic man
ner and are paving the way for their
successors to do even better than they.
' The town is moving onward. The
legislature will meet in : January. We
ought to have legislation such as will
enable us to better our town government
and enable as to get whtre we naturally
belong in the forefront of North Caro
lina's thrifty towns. -
The town needs a board of public
works composed of three men to be
elected by the board of aldermen. The
first three to hold office fdr two, four and
six years: their ; successors to hold "six
years each one going one every. two
years. This would leave an experienced
member on the board all the time.
This board should be elected by the
town aldermen; no town alderman being
eligible to position on ; board of public
works. The aldermen sbou'd have power
to remove any. member of the, board of
public works at any time for bicom
lencv. inattention to me ousmess oi his
department, or venality, i . ,
The board or public works : should ren
der account of .their respective - depart
ments to tne Doara oi aldermen and an
itemized statement of tbeir work and
expenses published every month in the
newspaper. .;-Jv;;y .
inasmuch as the greater part - of the
police expense of the town is caused by
liquor, the barkeepers should, be made to
bear the expense by high license. . -. ' k,.
Any amendment to the 'town charter
should empower the board of aldermen
to levy a large license tax on saloons.
Large enough to drive the little dives of
devil dens oat . of - existence . and' bid
enough to make it an object for the bet
ter class of barkeepers to keep as much
decency and order as is possible . in these
gilded gateways to hell. ..
'Amend our charter. . Create a board of
public works.' tret ' authority to . issue
sufficient bonds to install the needed im
provements.and 'then call an election.
These things ought to be done within-the
next two months or we miss the- oppor
tunity for two years longer.; At present
rates we will then have a much larger
town. ' .. 1 - . : . .. . "
As to the manner in which - these Im
provements ehonld be pot in, we can
readily see from the experience of other
towns that have hurried about the mat
ter and made many mistakes. , By avoid
ing the t-boals upon-which others have
stranded we will be pretty snre to go
right. (: v" vT i ,V '
If we should use iron- eewerDines with
leaded joints there will be no danger of
the sewers ever becoming stopped from
tree roots getting on the inside nor the
least possible danger of soil contamina
tion from leaking: even if the soil should
become contaminated, provided every
one got tbeir drinking water, fiom the
waterworks, it would make little or no
difference as the disease germ would be
well under ground and they have no
power of motion to crawl op to the sur
face. . If terra cotta pipes should be used they
ought to be put in the middle of the
streets as far away from the trees as
DOHsible and as near the surface as they
can be put to get sufficient fall. This
will reduce the expense of putting down
aud repairing to a minimum. If the soil
of the ditch in whit h the sewerpipes are
laid is heavily impregnated with salt
there will be no danger from tree roots
with any kind of pipes. No vegetation
will penetrate an intensely salty soil.
If sound business methods are pursued
with the sewerage, the expense of it need
not give the tax payers much concern. .
After the sewerage is properly installed,
the proper thing to do would be to sell
the privilege of connection at a certain
stipulated price, which in a short time
would amount to sufficient to pay off
the sewerage debt and leave a prollt be
sides. The expenses of operating prop
erly constructed sewerage is nothing.
Once put in it ought to stand indefinitely.
With waterworks the matter is differ
ent. There is expense of operating and
repairs. The charge should be for the
volume of water used; the amount being
as small as consistent with good service.
There is not another town in the State
where sewerage and waterworks can be
established for as little money for the
surface covered as- here. The river is
right at town to empty the sewage. We
can drive down a gang of wells any where
and get an inexhaustible supply of clean,
clear water that needs no filtering to
make it fit for use.
Paving Queen street from railroad to
railroad would not.be a very severe tax,
provided it was done as they do in Au
gusta, Ga., and other progressive south
ern towns where the property on either
side of the street is required to do a third
of tne work, and the town the other.
There are no doubt many on Queen
street who would kick very hard at the
proposition wanting the town to do it
all. While we wouW like very much to
see the work done it would manifestly be
wrong to tax property on residence
streets to improve property on another
street If it was determined to pave
Queen street, there would be no need of
compelling a party to pave bis front if he
did not want to; just leave his front
alone; let him have all the mud and dust
be wanted. The houses with paved fronts
would get the business. ;! ;
Shall we go forward or not?
The ideas embodied in the above have
been gathered from conversation with
other men. If they are worth anything
tbey are worth spreading.
"Citizen."
Glvlna; Him Rest.
The energy of one of the oldest In
habitants of a Massachusetts town Is a
byword among his ! neighbors and a
trial to his grandchildren, who have
not Inherited their full share of his ac
tive temper. ..
His grandson John In particular suf
fers from the old man's untiring indus
try, for John Is bis assistant In the lit
tle grocery -shop, whore everything,
from codfish to brooms, may be found.
A purchaser of glngersnaps lingered
one day to hear the noontime address,
delivered to poor John by bis grand
father. '
'"Now, Johnny, I'm a-golng home for
my dinner,'1 said the old man briskly,
"and on the way I'll carry up these
pails to Miss Manson and fetch back
her kerosene can. , I shall be gone up
'ards of half an hour. Youll have
plenty of time to eat your luncheon,
and while you're resting after-that 1
wish you'd saw up that little 'mess of
wood that lays out by the back door
and split it up for stove kiddling, for
the weather's turning sharp a ready.'
"Most likely III be back 'fore you get
out o' work, and anyways I don't want
to keep you at it all the time,' so If
there's, 'a few extry minutes Jest set
down and make out a bill or two. The
fust ot the month'll be upon us 'fore w
know It" Youth's Companion. '
vv- Hclplmsr tho Eneatr. '
A coal heaver was getting in a load
of coal in the suburbs of London. He
was shoveling In the coals at a good
rate when he was startled by .a terrific
yell from the house adjoining. ; .'
"Wot the dickens is the matter?"
queried the coalman, starting up. , ; -
A disheveled looking Individual made
his appearance at the door. -
' "Matter, you thickhead T shouted the
man. frantically endeavoring to pull
his hair up In clots by the roots, "you
are putting the, coal down the .wrong
hole. My. wife's people Uve'therer
LondoaTit-Bits. v v - -,v..r
' "And be stole the possum front you,"
said Ike Judge.' : . i ' . v;-t?
Ycs. kuIi. en. wuss dan riat'fce fiot
only cooked It en ent it bet pick his
teem rigut m rrout t my. do T' Atlao-
ta CcaKtitmioa ; ' . ' ",
The BestPreserlatloB for Ch His
d Frret it a bottle of Gott'i Tastcum Onu.
ToKIC It Is fticxclv irtm .nil nni&in tMp&
form. Ko cue mo par. Fno, aj . j
STATE NEWS.
Interesting North Carolina Item
In Condensed Form.
The magnillcent new M. P. church at
Henderson whs dedicated last Sunday.
To Dec. 1, 1900 the sales of fertilisers
were 80.000 tons more than the previous
year in North Carolina.
The railways are about through with
their evidence in the tax assessment case.
The State vs ill open its case Italeigh on
the 18th.
The house of Mrs. Minnie Jenkins, at
Burlington, wus burned Monday night.
Loss $1,400; insurance $1,000. Fire
thought to Iw iucendiitry.
There are several oases of typhoid
fever in Heidsviile. It is said that not
one case bus developed in the families
which us the city water, but among
those who use well water there have
been several.
Goldsboro Argus: Mr. Crawford
Howell brought in the largest sweeet
potato seen in this office this season or
any other season. The potato weighed
5 pounds and only required eighteen
of tbem to tnuke a bushel
John E. Fowler, fusion candidate for
congress iu the 8d district, ia preparing
to contest the sent of Chan. It. Thomas.
It is reported that .1 It Joyce has not
yet fully abandoned the ide of contesting
the seat of W. W. Kitcbin in the 5th
district.
A bad wreck occurred on the Norfolk
and Western, near Mayodau, Tuesday
morning. An engine and six cars were
derailed, and the engine and four cars
rolled down a SO foot embankment.
Engineer A. J. Spencer stuck to bis post
and escaped injury. Brakeman Harvey
Boleman was killed.
A $10,000 suit against the Southern
Railway for damage brought by W. T.
Woodleaf was compromised in court at
Winston Tuesday afternoon for $200..
Two years ago Woodleaf was section
master on the Mocksville road, and
while riding on a hand car, fell off and
broke one leg and five ribs. Thesuitwas
to get pay for his injuries.
Graham Gleaner: Many of the union
mill . operatives are leaving the county
and going to South Carolina, Georgia
and other points. More than one hun
dred will leave here, as many from Haw,
River and Burlington, each, we are in
formed. Among them are a great many
excellent people who prefer to go else
where rather than surrender rights and
privileges which they as citisens deem?
their own and should enjoy. ;
Jupiter Warmer Than the Earth.
The gigantic mass of Jupiter has a
much larger warmth than that of the
earth. It is the result of the molecular
movement produced by the compres
sion of the strata and must be greater
the more powerful the masses, and
hence the larger the pressure of the
strata is. Jupiter surpasses the earth:
In polut of muss 307 times, and for this
reason the inner temperature or Indi
vidual warmth of .the planet Is proba
bly high enough to evaporate the water
upon the surface quickly, so that water
vapor forms the principal substance of
the atmosphere of Jupiter. Water va
por is on excellent reflector and readily
accounts for the bright radiation , of
light emitted by the planet Professor
Hughes in Chicago Tribune.
Awkward Compliment.
There Is, such a thing as being too
persistently complimentary. A candid
and well meaning professor who bad
witnessed the performance of a little
play In a private house In which his
hostess bad taken the leading part met
the lady as she came from behind the
curtain.
"Madam," be said, rushing up to her,
."you played excellently. That part fits
you to perfection." . .'
."Oh, co. professor," said the lady
modestly. "A young and pretty wom
an Is needed for that part" -
"But madam," persisted the profess
or, "you have positively proved the
cbntrarjr Pearson's Weekly.
-X; Close of tie Seaaon. -
Mrs. Uomeboddle My busband says
today's paper has a lot in It about the
close of the Loudon season. :
Mrs. Glouetrotte Well. I don't vron
ier. They were horrible misfits. New :
York Weekly. I : p v '
Among the tens of thousands who
have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
for colds and la grippe during the past
few years, to our knowledge, not a sin-,,
gle case has resulted in pneumonia. Thos. .
Whitfield A Co., 240 Wabash avenue,
Chicago, one of the most prominent re
tail druggists in that city,, in speaking
of thjs. says: - '"We recommend Chamber- '
Iain's Congh Remedy for la grippe in
many easw, as it not only give prompt
and complete recoverybu also counter
acts any tendency f Jagrippe to result ia '
pneumonia." ' For sale by J. E. Iiood,
druggist. . v " '